January Project

Conor and Gabe are working together to edit, rewrite, and rerecord some of Conor's recent material for a concept album. We're thinking science fiction and bare acoustic arrangements.

Improbable Songs

1. ) Captain Charles Fort and Janus are aboard the photon zeppelin. Capt. Fort completes their post-launch checklist and prepares for cryosleep.
2. ) The cryogenic musings of Capt. Fort en-route to the Super-Sargasso Star System
3. ) Ada, Capt. Fort's wife creates a holo-missive (h-mail) for her husband, but then deletes it as it will (theoretically) reach her husband long after she has died. She wonders if the dead can communicate.
4. ) Janus, the ship's sentient computer system unexpectedly reaches enlightenment during a routine diagnostic becoming the first non-biological life form to do so and jeopardizing the mission.
5. ) Capt. Charles Fort wakes from cryosleep to find himself sharing the photon zeppelin with a curious and incomprehensible luminescent octopus. Janus, the ship's sentient navigation system is meditating. Improbably, Capt. Fort has arrived at the Super-Sargasso Star System.
6. ) Capt. Fort attempts to study the star system as the octopus attempts to study Fort. Neither make any progress. The differences in their perception of time are irreconcilable.
7. ) Capt. Fort longs to be with his wife again. Attempting to be helpful, the octopus transports Fort to an alternate (previous?) reality. Fort sing the song a married woman.
8. ) The story ends, somehow.

Possible Songs

Ambulance

Mark the ground mark the lead

A man named edison

Time for your transporter

A married woman?

Everything is as it should be

The nature of limitation

The best of all worlds

Possible Story Ideas

• A husband and wife inventor team.
• The husband is killed or seemingly killed in an experiment.
• The wife mourns his loss.
• The wife longs for a technology to return her husband to her.
• She creates and employs one with unintended consequences.

Multiverse

• Does she pull him from a parallel universe? Is he happy about that? Is the version of her from that parallel universe happy about it?
  • If she pulls a version of him from a parallel universe in which they were never married, he might have occasion to sing A married woman.
• Is he not dead, but instead sent to a parallel universe? Perhaps where the husband and wife are not together?
• Maybe he is not dead, but somehow indescribably partially there. Perhaps oscillating between several realities. Maybe the best description is that he is somehow perforated like the line in ambulance.

Time Travel

• Can she go back in time to prevent the accident that took him away?
• Can she go back and then decide not to prevent the accident?

Possible Musical Ideas

Arrangement Ideas

• Acoustic Instruments
• Vocal with harmonies
• Different arrangements to differentiate characters?

Albums for reference

• David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
• Grandaddy - Software slump
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - VS Children